Hello! Thanks for sharing your hot take. Your opinion is Wrong and I am going to tell you Why.
“Hot take” should be reserved for statements which are conjectured or hypothesized but not proven. Despite not being proven, a statement should have some evidence in its favor before being presented as a hot take.
On the other hand, once something is proven, it is tea. To prove something is to spill the tea. A proof is an effortpost. Proper format for spilling the tea is to write the statement of the tea, followed by “in this essay I will,” and then the effortpost, beginning with statement of assumptions. A proper effortpost ends with “thank you for coming to my TED talk,” or “TED” for short. Allow me to demonstrate.
Fermat’s Little Tea.
For p, a ∈ ℤ, if p is a prime which does not divide a, then a^(p-1) = 1 (mod p).
In this essay I will let p, a ∈ ℤ, such that p is a prime which does not divide a. Lagrange’s theorem indicates that ℤ/pℤ* is a cyclic group under multiplication. As such the order of any element of ℤ/pℤ* is the order of the group, p-1. Since p does not divide a, a is an element of ℤ/pℤ*, and as such, its order in the group is p-1. Therefore a^(p-1) = 1 (mod p). TED.
The Four Color Tea is notable for being the first major tea spilled by computer. The Four Color Tea, then the Four Color Hot Take, was first proposed by Francis Guthrie in 1852. The tea was notoriously difficult to spill, but over a century later, in 1976, Wolfgang Haken and Kenneth Appel presented an effortpost using a very advanced (for the time) computer at the University of Illinois.
The first person to spill the tea on the Riemann Hot Take with an effortpost accepted by experts will be the recipient of a million dollar prize.
this is a niche post
Tea: √2 is irrational.
Efforpost:
In this essay I will let r = √2 and spill by oh no that r ∉ ℚ
First, we need to spill a lemonade:
Lemonade 1: For all q ∈ ℚ, there exist relatively prime a,b ∈ ℤ such that q=a/b. Effortpost: By definition, q ∈ ℚ ⇒ ∃ x, y ∈ ℤ | q=x/y. If x and y are not relatively prime, then let z = gcd(x,y) be the greatest common divisor of the x and y, and let x’=x/z and y’=y/z. Then q = x/y = x’z / y’z = x’/y’. Since z was the greatest common divisor of x and y, x’ and y’ must be relatively prime, so we take a=x’ and b=y’. LED.
Like, what if r were rational? Then by lemonade 1, there exist relatively prime p, q ∈ ℤ such that r = p/q. Squaring both sides gives us 2 = p²/q² -> p² = 2q², so p² is even. However, this is only possible if p itself is even, in which case p² = 2q² is divisible by four. This further implies that q² is even, and so q must be as well. If p and q are both even, then they have a common factor of 2; but by definition they are relatively prime.
oh no.
Thus, r = √2 ∉ ℚ by oh no. TED.
Every generation coming up with new names for things might just save math. Before spilling my tea, let me lay out these three lemonades… it’s just more inviting.
The big thing in my area in grad school was the Baum Connes conjecture, and Paul would have loved having the Baum Connes Hot Take. Alain… probably depends on the french for hot take.
I think needed is a word for Theory. Like K Theory, Homotopy Theory…
Bullshit. It’s bullshit. K bullshit, graph bullshit, homotopy bullshit, Galois bullshit, number bullshit, category bullshit. It’s all bullshit.
Meanwhile, “utter” works for the first (e.g., “you utter floorboard”) but somehow “utterly” doesn’t seem to work as well for the second (“I was utterly floorboarded”).
Utterly doesn’t work for drunk because it’s the affix for turning random objects into terms for *shocked*, obviously.
… huh. I thought that might just be the similarity to “floored”, and yet “I was utterly coat hangered” does seem to convey something similar.
I have to tell you, I am utterly sandwiched at this discovery.
Completely makes the phrase mean “super tired”.
“God, it’s been a long week, I am completely coat-hangered.”
Something is
Something is wrong with our language
Is it a glitch or a feature?
Feature
this neat feature is called collocative substitution, and it occurs when certain words are strongly linked to certain context and/or phrases. when you read/hear a pair of words that usually wouldn’t go together, your brain fills in the context with what would normally be inferred, given the originally phrased pairing. thus, finding out that there’s a term for this phenomenon may indeed leave you utterly sandwiched. lesser known or less strongly linked phrases and pairings may not be able to translate substituted words to appropriately fit the inferred context, so you were not utterly floorboarded at the club last night, but rather you were absolutely floorboarded, and as this explanation continues to drag on, you may by the end of it find yourself completely coathangered from read it all.
I, like all linguists I have met or even heard of, have a deep intricate love-hate relationship with the English Language because of complete and total coathangering like this
Hey I was just studying this last week! It’s also a thing in Spanish 😂
Hi there! I would love to! I think I’ll start out with an example with filter words and then cut out the filter words to show you the difference.
For those of you who haven’t seen my post on Filter Words.
Now, for the example:
I felt a hand tap my shoulder as I realized I had made a huge mistake. I knew the consequences would be unsettling, but I had no other choice. I saw the light of my desk lamp bounce off of the officer’s badge before I had even turned around. It seemed like I always found my way into trouble.
It was the first thing off the top of my head, so it’s a bit rough sounding….
Now for without filter words (And a bit of revision):
A hand tapped my shoulder as it dawned on me: I had just made a huge mistake. The consequences would be unsettling if I didn’t get out of this mess, but I had no other choice. The light of my desk lamp bounced off of the officer’s badge. I always found my way into trouble.
By taking out filter words, you get right to the point.
I’d also like to add a few more notes that I didn’t have the chance to post previously.
Some Examples of Filtering:
I heard a noise in the hallway.
She felt embarrassed when she tripped.
I saw a light bouncing through the trees.
I tasted the sour tang of raspberries bursting on my tongue.
He smelled his teammate’s BO wafting through the locker room.
She remembered dancing at his wedding.
I think people should be kinder to one another.
How can you apply this?
Read your work to see how many of these filtering words you might be leaning on. Microsoft Word has a great Find and Highlight feature that I love to use when I’m editing. See how you can get rid of these filtering words and take your sentences to the next level by making stronger word choices. Take the above examples, and see how they can be reworked.
FILTERING EXAMPLE: I heard a noise in the hallway.
DESCRIBE THE SOUND: Heels tapped a staccato rhythm in the hallway.
FILTERING EXAMPLE: She felt embarrassed after she tripped.
DESCRIBE WHAT THE FEELING LOOKS LIKE: Her cheeks flushed and her shoulders hunched after she tripped.
FILTERING EXAMPLE: I saw a light bouncing through the trees.
DESCRIBE THE SIGHT: A light bounced through the trees.
FILTERING EXAMPLE: I tasted the sour tang of raspberries bursting on my tongue.
DESCRIBE THE TASTE: The sour tang of raspberries burst on my tongue.
FILTERING EXAMPLE: He smelled his teammate’s BO wafting through the locker room.
DESCRIBE THE SMELL: His teammate’s BO wafted through the locker room.
FILTERING EXAMPLE: She remembered dancing at his wedding.
DESCRIBE THE MEMORY: She had danced at his wedding.
FILTERING EXAMPLE: I think people should be kinder to one another.
DESCRIBE THE THOUGHT: People should be kinder to one another.
See what a difference it makes when you get rid of the filter? It’s simply not necessary to use them. By ditching them, you avoid “telling,” your voice is more active, and your pacing is helped along.
The above list is not comprehensive as there are many examples of filtering words. The idea is to be aware of the concept so that you can recognize instances of it happening in your work. Be aware of where you want to place the energy and power in your sentences. Let your observations flow through your characters with immediacy.
Ok, sorry for the lengthy answer, I know you just wanted an example…. sorry!
If you have any questions, feel free to ask at my ask box
THIS IS SO GREAT. I dind’t even know there was a term for this (I should have figured, right, because writers have words for everything), but it’s one of those things that being aware when you’re doing it (and editing it right the fuck out) will improve your writing SO MUCH. Removing the filtering helps to draw your readers more intimately into the action of your story, and as the text above says, adds power and immediacy to every sentence. THIS IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT TIP I WANT TO SCREAM ABOUT IT.
My two cents, because I always have two cents, right? 🙂
This is ENORMOUSLY HELPFUL. I mean seriously. My sentence level writing LEAPT forward when I started looking for filter words and being aware of them.
That said, two things:
Don’t twist yourself into a pretzel trying to avoid them, especially not in the first draft. Filter the shit out of everything in the first draft if that’s what comes out. Just get it written. Fix later.
Don’t overdo this, particularly if you’re writing in first person or deep third persion POV. Sometimes we think in filters, so it’s okay to leave some of it in your narration. Just be aware of it and make sure you’re doing it deliberately.
And hooboy, don’t mess with your dialogue. People don’t speak in polished prose. We filter in speech all the time, saying things like, “I saw Joe pick up the ball” instead of “Joe picked up the ball”. That may be obvious to most folks, but I wanted to mention it because sometimes we get overeager to “follow all the rules” to the letter. Writing is about learning the ‘rules/guidelines’ and using them to best effect, then chucking them out the window in places they don’t work. Becoming a better writer is learning when to follow and when to chuck. 🙂
This is a brilliant post! Filter phrases is def a recurring issue on many of the ms that I’ve worked on.
My naym is pome / and lo my form is fix’d
Tho peepel say / that structure is a jail
I am my best / when formats are not mix’d
Wen poits play / subversions often fail
Stik out their toung / to rebel with no cause
At ruls and norms / In ignorance they call:
My words are free / Defying lit’rate laws
To lik the forms / brings ruin on us all
A sonnet I / the noblest lit’rate verse
And ruls me bind / to paths that Shakespeare paved
Iambic fot / allusions well dispersed
On my behind / I stately sit and wave
You think me tame /
Fenced-in and penned / bespelled
I bide my time /
I twist the end / like hell
* “lik” should be read as “lick”, not “like”. In general, the initial section on each line should be read sort of phonetically.
Written for World Poetry Day, March 21, 2018. When I had this idea earlier today, I thought it was the worst, most faux hip pretentious idea for a shallow demonstration of empty wordsmithing skill in poetry ever. So I had to try to write it. I mean, how often do you get to fuse the iambic dimeter of bredlik – one of the newest and most exciting verse forms – with the stately iambic pentameter of the classic sonnet?
“Old friend” either means an elderly dog or an individual of the same gender with whom you have been secretly in love for more than a decade. There are no other possible interpretations.
This is blatant archenemy erasure and I won’t stand for it
Bold of you to assume the archenemy isn’t the individual of the same gender you’ve been secretly in love with for more than a decade
Bold of you to assume the archenemy isn’t an elderly dog
Katherine Crighton 